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Chris -- 2018-04-11
It beggars belief that we haven’t seen this before, which means we probably have:
If what you say is true then perhaps this is the only thing Trump is proposing that won’t be a backwood step
to make it full inline would probably be a bit of a backwood step
I made a keyboard on this principle 18 months ago for use on my iPad and USE it sometimes, frankly its a backwoods step
I therefore do not think for a defender that it is a backwoods step to play for a team lower down the league
It doesn’t really need spelling out: backwood = hill-billy = primitive = throwback
On the plain in Spain where it mainly rains.
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How indeed have we missed this one. Non-rhotics are especially susceptible.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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